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by kqr 1425 days ago
This has been true in my personal research too. When projects are sufficiently decomposed, a "ticket" about implementing part of a project is generally speaking within the same order of magnitude.

However, this article is not talking about "tickets" but rather about the entire project. So that you may or may not be able to break the project down into roughly-constant chunks is irrelevant for the arguments of this article.

What matters is the size of the full project that you need to see through from start to finish in order to get business value out of your work.

(Yes, you can usually break down the project into smaller chunks too, so that you see business value quicker. However, these are rarely of constant size anymore, in my experience.)

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you have to be careful about pushing out an early MVP for "business value". my company tends to do this but the MVPs are so far from complete that I'm skeptical we're even getting good data out of it